Michigan state Rep. Larry Inman (R) has been indicted by a federal grand jury, “accused of trying to sell his vote on a measure to repeal Michigan’s prevailing wage law,” the Detroit Free Press reports.

“Inman is charged with attempted extortion, soliciting a bribe, and making a false statement to the FBI and could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted on the most serious charge.”

The Washington Post reports one of Inman’s text messages, which allegedly offered up a lawmaker’s vote in exchange for cash, ended with a famous five-word phrase: “We never had this discussion.”

“It was a blessing to go back to prison for a second term.”

— Former Connecticut Gov. John Rowland (R), quoted by the Connecticut Post.

“In a wide-ranging indictment unsealed Wednesday, federal authorities portrayed the region’s most powerful labor leader, John Dougherty, as an unscrupulous kingpin who enriched himself on the backs of union members and exerted his influence to steamroll opponents and corruptly bend the government of Philadelphia to his whims,” the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

“The chief weapon in his arsenal, prosecutors said, was City Councilman Bobby Henon, whom Dougherty helped propel into office in 2011 on a tide of union money, then allegedly used as a tool to leave his mark on pressing legislation facing the city.”

Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) “has filed for divorce from his wife, Maureen, his one-time co-defendant in a tawdry corruption trial that exposed their marital woes and tarnished his political legacy before the U.S. Supreme Court tossed out his conviction,” the Washington Post reports.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren called President Trump an “accelerant” to a corrupt system in her first interview since she announced she is exploring a 2020 presidential run, NBC News reports.

Said Warren: “Donald Trump is an accelerant. He takes a problem that has just been growing and growing and growing and he just sets it off. And makes it worse than it ever was.”

“A federal judge on Tuesday will sentence a former mayor of Allentown, Pennsylvania, who was convicted of bribery and related crimes that prosecutors said he carried out to finance an abortive run for the U.S. Senate,” Reuters reports.

“Ed Pawlowski was convicted on March 1 of 47 counts related to pay-to-play schemes in which he solicited kickbacks from prospective city contractors.”